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Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

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Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

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Post by gw »

chacham15 wrote: post #69
gw wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do not use I2P's domain name system at all. Everything is just fully-qualified base32 hostnames underneath.

What do you mean by base32 hostnames? ips? If you mean ips, then, especially on a phone, wont the ip change often. If you mean some actual hostname (presumably not the reverse lookup) then who translates that hostname? If it is provided by nightlyweb servers, then if that server gets taken down, you have no more network, right?

I mean the hostnames used by I2P itself. They behave like normal hostnames, but they don't require any DNS-style resolution because they contain your public keys inside the hostname itself. They are equivalent to .onion addresses in Tor, except a lot longer.

Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

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Post by kedean »

gw wrote: post #67
chacham15 wrote: post #66

> the goal is to have uncensorable, untraceable communication and file-sharing on mobile devices." This is really interesting. How is this uncensorable? From what I've read, i2p requires defined servers to resolve addresses which themselves can be taken down.

I do not use I2P's domain name system at all. Everything is just fully-qualified base32 hostnames underneath.

That does not make it inherently uncensorable. China can still look at your traffic, go 'this is nightweb traffic' (or even just bittorrent traffic, I doubt they care about that), and block the communication. Bam, censored.

Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

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Post by incision »

fosap wrote: post #57

Android 4? That's a pity. But why a mobil app? Why not a .war app for the i2p router? IMO Social networks are something that are mostly used on desktop computers. Also it seems to me like you want to fork i2p. I think that's a very bad idea. First since you should be very confident in your skills if you roll your own crypto. Second because a split seems not necessary and harmful in the long run for the network. The i…

Personally, my use of messaging and social apps happens almost exclusively via mobile. I'm writing this reply from the excellent Airlock HN app even.

I doubt I'd give Nightweb the time of day if it necessitated a desktop.

Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

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fosap wrote: post #57

Android 4? That's a pity. But why a mobil app? Why not a .war app for the i2p router? IMO Social networks are something that are mostly used on desktop computers. Also it seems to me like you want to fork i2p. I think that's a very bad idea. First since you should be very confident in your skills if you roll your own crypto. Second because a split seems not necessary and harmful in the long run for the network. The i…

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Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

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Post by hucker »

joelthelion wrote: post #23

>How does it avoid spam? For me a good solution would be to use machine learning, the same way spam filtering works for email. A decentralized version of Reddit could actually be pretty simple, with a flooding P2P network coupled to some machine learning on each of the nodes. The beauty is that anyone would be free to implement the content filtering measures the way they like it.

How would you discern what is popular and what is not(that is, the "upvotes" of reddit/HN)? Or did you mean only machine learning?

Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

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Post by gr359 »

kvgr wrote: post #43
cdata wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's mine, for science: http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=tnaohxmxj2eg3fsf...

Here is mine: http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=bicbgdgdxvv5ifxa... kj2voujr7vk

Me too! http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=psvmye7nw7mp53yp...

Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

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Post by w1ntermute »

Does this have a particularly adverse effect on phone battery life, when compared to a well-written app for a centralized social network (aka, not the Facebook Android app; perhaps the G+ app)? I can imagine that a lot of uploading of social network content to your peers would take place.

Also, what is the bandwidth utilization like compared to an app for a centralized network? With a lot of us on tiered data plans now, this is a crucial concern.

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